words that make you grit your teeth

[Crankin]

As a former English teacher, I can assure you that very few people (except the extremely learned posters on this forum) get the homophone or apostrophe things. It was torture to teach these and to try to think of ways to get kids to remember the rules for these things.
My husband used to say "He don't" instead of "He doesn't" when we first met. I realized it was because his parents said it, so I just came out and said it sounded ignorant and wasn't proper English.
He never used it again.

[OakLeaf]

Funny how a lot of the things people are posting are just regional variations in pronunciation. I mean, really, repeat this sentence and the last one using phonetic pronunciation. I don't consider anyone's accent to be "ignorant," although sometimes it can be hard to ignore my own cultural biases. What's the difference between "nucular" and "iern," except that the latter is the majority pronunciation?

I go overboard with the ellipsis okay... I admit it... since we've digressed into punctuation with the apostrophes.

But to me (another overused phrase), I think slang is all about the context. E.g., the only time I write "ain't" is to make a point, and obviously I'd never have used that word in court when I was practicing, but I use it in casual conversation all the time, as do my peers.

[Aggie_Ama]

I hear on commercials "avaidable". I thought all these years it was available?

My brother over uses "I digress".

My husband says "I'll tell you the truth" when he is about to say an opinion. Jeez, after five years I believed he was always telling the truth.

And my pet peeve? When people say "we're pregnant". No she is pregnant, you buddy are not. You are having to deal with her being pregnant but you are not pregnant.